Wikipedia: Sante Kimes (born July 24, 1934) is an American
felon who has been convicted of two murders, along with robbery, violation of
anti-slavery laws, forgery and numerous other crimes. Many of these crimes were
committed with assistance of her son Kenneth. The two of them were tried and
convicted together for the murder of Irene Silverman, along with 117 other
charges. The pair were also suspected but never charged in a third murder in
the Bahamas, to which Kenneth has confessed.

According to
court records, Kimes was born Sandra Louise Walker in Oklahoma City to a mother
of partial Dutch descent and an East Indian father. Her estranged son, Kent
Walker, in his book Son of a Grifter has reported from an old acquaintance
of his mother that Sante Kimes was the daughter of a respectable family who was
unable to cope with the young girl’s aberrant, wild antics; Kimes herself has
claimed that her father was a laborer and that her mother was a prostitute who
migrated from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl to Los Angeles, where the young
Kimes ran wild in the streets. But Sante Kimes has given numerous, conflicting
stories about her origins and numerous other accounts are difficult to confirm,
and thus Kent Walker says that his ancestry could be anything from Latino to
East Indian to Indigenous American to simply white. She spent the better part
of her life fleecing people of money, expensive merchandise, and real estate,
either through elaborate con games, arson, forgery, or outright theft.

According to the
book Son of a Grifter, she committed insurance fraud on numerous
occasions, frequently by committing arson and then collecting for property
damage. She delighted in introducing her husband as an ambassador - a ploy that
even gained the couple access to a White House reception during the Ford
administration. And she sometimes even impersonated Elizabeth Taylor, whom she
resembled slightly. He also alleges that she committed many acts of fraud that
were not even financially necessary, such as enslaving maids when she could
easily afford to pay them and burning down houses she could have easily sold.

She frequently
offered young, homeless illegal immigrants housing and employment, then kept
them virtual prisoners by threatening to report them to the authorities if they
didn’t follow her orders. As a result, she and her second husband, alcoholic
motel tycoon Kenneth Kimes, spent years squandering his fortune on lawyers’
fees, defending themselves against charges of slavery. Kimes was eventually
arrested in August 1985 and was sentenced by the U.S. District Court to five
years in prison for violating federal anti-slavery laws. Her husband took a
plea bargain and agreed to complete an alcohol treatment program; Ken, Sr. and
their son, Kenny, lived a somewhat normal life until Sante was released from
prison in 1989. Ken, Sr. died in 1994.

~ THE MURDERS ~

~ David Kazdin ~

David Kazdin had
allowed Kimes to use his name on the deed of a home in Las Vegas that was
actually occupied by Kenneth Sr. and Sante Kimes in the 1970s. Several years
later, Sante Kimes convinced a notary to forge Kazdin’s signature on an
application for a loan of $280,000, with the house as collateral. When Kazdin
discovered the forgery and threatened to expose Kimes she ordered him killed.
Kenneth Jr. murdered Kazdin by shooting him in the back of the head. According
to another accomplice’s later testimony, all three participated in disposing of
the evidence. Kazdin’s body was found in a dumpster near Los Angeles airport in
March 1998. The murder weapon was never recovered, having been disassembled and
dropped into a storm sewer.

~ Irene Silverman ~

In June 1998,
with her son Kenny, Kimes perpetrated a scheme whereby she would assume the
identity of their landlady, 82-year-old socialite Irene Silverman, and then
appropriate ownership of her $7.7 million Manhattan mansion. Despite the
fact Silverman’s body was never found, both mother and son were convicted of
murder in 2000, in no small part because of the discovery of Kimes’ notebooks
detailing the crime and notes written by Silverman, who was extremely
suspicious of the pair. During the trial for the Kadzin murder Kenneth Kimes
confessed that after his mother had used a stun gun on Silverman, he strangled
her, stuffed her corpse into a bag and deposited it in a dumpster in Hoboken,
New Jersey.

~ Sayed Bilal Ahmed ~

Kenneth also
confessed to murdering a third man, banker Sayed Bilal Ahmed, at his mother’s
behest in The Bahamas in 1996, which had been suspected by Bahamian authorities
at the time. Kenneth testified that the two acted together to drug Ahmed, drown
him in a bathtub, and dump his body offshore, but no charges were ever filed in
that case.Sante Kimes denies any involvement or knowledge of
the murders, and claims that Kenneth’s confession was solely to avoid the death
penalty.

~ Trials ~

Although the
Kazdin murder happened first, The Kimes’ were apprehended in New York City and
tried first for the Silverman murder. Evidence recovered from their car helped
establish the case for trying them on Kazdin’s murder as well.

The Silverman
trial was unusual in many aspects, namely the rare combination of a mother/son
team and the fact that no body was recovered. Nonetheless, the jury was
unanimous in voting to convict them of not only murder but 117 other charges
including robbery, burglary, conspiracy, grand larceny, illegal weapons
possession, forgery and eavesdropping on their first poll on the subject. The
judge also took the unusual step of ordering Kimes not to speak to the media
even after the jury had been sequestered as a result of her passing a note to
New York Times reporter David Rhode in court. The judge threatened to have
Kimes handcuffed during further court appearances if she persisted and restricted
her telephone access to calls to her lawyers. The judge contended that Kimes
was attempting to influence the jury as they may have seen or heard any such
interviews, and that there would be no cross-examination as there would be in
court. Kimes had earlier chosen to not take the stand in her own defense after
the judge ruled that prosecutors could question her about the previous
conviction on slavery charges.

During the
sentencing portion of the Silverman trial, Sante Kimes made a prolonged
statement to the court blaming the authorities, including their own lawyers,
for framing them. She went on to compare their trial to the Salem Witch Trials
and claim the prosecutors were guilty of “murdering the Constitution” before
the judge told her to be quiet. When the statement was concluded the presiding
judge responded that Mrs Kimes was a sociopath and a degenerate and her son was
a dupe and “remorseless predator” before imposing the maximum sentence on both
of them.

In October 2000,
while doing an interview, Kenneth held Court TV reporter Maria Zone hostage by
pressing a ballpoint pen into her throat. Zone had interviewed Kimes once
before without incident. Kenneth Kimes’ demand was that his mother not be
extradited to California, where the two faced the death penalty for the murder
of David Kazdin. After four hours of negotiation Kimes removed the pen from
Zone’s throat. Negotiators created a distraction which allowed them to quickly
remove Zone and wrestle Kimes to the ground.

In March 2001,
Kenneth Kimes was extradited to Los Angeles to stand trial for the murder of
David Kazdin. Sante Kimes was extradited to Los Angeles in June 2001. During
that trial in June 2004, while he was facing the death penalty, Kenneth changed
his plea from “not guilty” to “guilty” and implicated his mother in the murder
in exchange for a plea deal that his mother not receive the death penalty if
convicted. Sante Kimes again made a prolonged statement denying the murders and
accusing police and prosecutors of various kinds of misconduct, and was again
eventually ordered by the presiding judge to be silent. The sentencing judge in
the Kazdin case called Mrs. Kimes “one of the most evil individuals” she had
met in her time as a judge.

~ Imprisonment ~

Sante Kimes is
currently serving a sentence of 120 years at the Bedford Hills Correctional
Facility for Women in New York. On her prisoner papers, Sante’s projected
release date is on March 3, 2119. Additionally, Kimes and her son were each
sentenced to life for the death of David Kazdin in California. Kenneth Kimes is
currently incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in
California.

~ In media ~

A 2001
made-for-TV movie, Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and
Kenny Kimes, starred Mary Tyler Moore as Sante Kimes, Gabriel Olds as
Kenny, and Jean Stapleton as Silverman. In 2006, another television movie based
on a book about the case, A Little Thing Called Murder, starring Judy
Davis and Jonathan Jackson, aired on Lifetime. She was also featured in a 2008 episode
of the television show Dateline.

FULL
TEXT: There may have been more wicked families in Sodom and Gomorrah of old
than the Shaffleback family of Galena, Kan., three of whose members have
recently been found guilty of murder; but it may be doubted if a more loathsome
set of people ever before existed on this continent, either in a state of
civilization or savagery, than the moral monsters, the Stafflebacks, who have
trafficked in every crime and vice from thievery to butchery, and two of whom,
at least, will spend the remainder of their lives in prison. George and Ed
Staffleback have been found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life, while the mother, hoary in crime as in years –
she is now 65 – has been found guilty of murder in the second degree and will
no doubt end her years in prison, having received a twenty-five-year sentence.

Nancy
Staffleback has led a most remarkable career of crime and has trained her progeny
to follow in her footsteps. Of her thirteen children not one has led an upright
life, and not one has a trait of character to redeem, even in part, the general
coarseness and criminality of their natures. She was born in Allegan County,
New York. Her maiden name was Chase and her early years were spent in
Wisconsin. Through her mother she inherited a strain of Wyandotte Indian blood,
and perhaps this may have had something to do with the natural of her
character. When a young girl she met a Swiss, Michael Shaffleback, in Dubuque,
Iowa. After some changes they moved to Lawrence County, Missouri, where they
settled on a farm. Here they quarreled. The husband was charged by his wife and
some of his children with unmentionable crimes, and the husband accused the
wife of crimes equally revolting to both moral and natural laws. The result was
that the husband left the neighborhood and has not since been heard from. The
airing of their family differences in court had the effect of making Lawrence
County too hot for Nancy and her brood, and they moved to a place known as
Swindle Hill, in the town of Joplin, Jasper County. It was a fit abode for such
characters.

Here
congregated the degraded of both sexes, women who had forgotten the meaning of
decency and men who were practiced in every crime. A man’s life was not safe in
the place after dark and policemen never ventured into it singly. Here the
Stafflebacks lived several years, the sons practicing thievery and other
crimes, for which some of them received sentences In jail, and the girls
consorting with the degraded of both sexes.

They
committed one murder, at least, here, but the story of this will come later.
Ultimately the vile den of the Stafflebacks was raided and two of the sons were
sent to the penitentiary.

~ In
a Hotbed of Crime. ~

Three
years ago the family moved to “Picker’s Point,” an unsavory place on the
outskirts of Galena. They took up their abode in a long desert shanty, within a
few rods of which were a number of deserted shafts, where some time or other
men had prospected for lead or zinc. The place is a hotbed of crime. Scattered
around are miserable hovels, the homes of depraved women and men. Here vice
reaches a depth that decency dare not attempt to describe. Rough miners, many
of them foreigners, frequent the hovels and gamble and drink and swear. Ribald
revelry is often interrupted by a fight that ends in murder. Then the shafts,
the silent, yawning pits of the ground, are charged with another victim, which
they receive into their dark depths never to yield again. If these shafts were
to-day made to give up their ghastly tenants fully fifty undiscovered murders
would be revealed.

Amid
such congenial surroundings the Staffleback family resumed their career of
crime. At this time the family consisted of Mother Nance, Ed. George, Mike,
Cora, Louisa and Emma. All these were children of the old woman except Cora,
who was married to George.

The
latter and Ed had a short time before been released from the penitentiary and
had joined the family at Picker’s Point.”

And
now another man, Charles Wilson, who passed as a husband of Nancy, drifted into
the gang. Two girls, Rosa Bayne and Anna McComb, also took up their abode with
the Staffleback family. In their different ways these people led their criminal
lives, with Mother Nance acting as the evil genius of the gang. Time and again
the den in which they lived was raided and one or more was arrested for some
petty offense. But the gang took this as a matter of course.

Last
June, however, occurred an event that brought the Stafflebacks to grief. This
was the murder of a miner, Frank Galbraith. He had gone to the Staffleback
house on invitation from Emma, but the old woman had refused him admittance. He
returned and then a row began. This is the story of it as given by Anna McComb,
who witnessed the affair:

“I
heard the row begin and stepped outside and around the corner of the log hut.
The old woman grabbed her corn knife and ran Galbraith out of the house. Then
Wilson and Ed got their guns and began shooting at Galbraith, who started to
run down the road. Wilson fired first, but missed. Then Ed fired, and I could
tell that he hit him, for Frank put his hand to his hip and fell. But he got
right up again and ran on. He couldn’t run very fast, and Ed ran alongside of
him, put his gun to his head and fired. Frank threw his hand up to his head and
fell by the side of the road. Ed took the knife the old woman and started to
finish Frank by cutting his throat. All this time me and Cora had been running
along after them. I grabbed Ed by the arm and begged him not to do it. “Let me
alone, or I’ll slit your throat,” he said. Then he turned and cut Galbraith’s
throat. The blood spurted out.The old
woman took the knife and wiped it on her apron.

“I
felt sick and me and Cora lay down in the weeds so that we could see them and
they couldn’t see us. They thought we had gone to the house. I was afraid to
look until Cora whispered “They’re pulling his clothes off.” Then I looked. I
saw Ed take him by the shoulders, and George took one leg and Wilson the other.
They carried him to the old shaft and threw him in.

A
month later the body of Galbraith was seen floating at the bottom of the shaft,
and an investigation into the crime was Ed, George and Staffleback were arrested,
tried and convicted of the murder, and an effort was made to apprehend Wilson,
who was also implicated in the killing. Wilson, however, had fled and the
authorities are now searching for him.

The
arrest of the Stafflebacks led to other horrible disclosures. Released from the
fear in which they had of the Stafflebacks, Cora Staffleback (George’s wife)
and Rosa Bayne tell stories of murders committed by this family. Two years ago
two girls took up their abode in the Staffleback house. One night in a fit of
passion Mike Staffleback beat one of them into insensibility and finally death,
and lest the other girl should tell of the affair she was beaten to death by Ed
Staffleback. The brothers then wrapped the bodies in sheets and threw them down
an abandoned shaft.

A
short time afterward the brothers, Mike, Ed and George, attacked and killed a
peddler who was stopping over night at the house divided his money.

Another
murder of which member of the Staffleback family are guilty was that of an old
soldier named Rodabaugh. Ed, Mike and a man named Billy Martin, a brother of
Mike’s wife made away with him while the Stafflebacks were living in Joplin. He
was killed for $35 in pension money which he was known to have on his person.

Still
murder the Stafflebacks are believed to have committed while In Joplin is that
of a man named Moorhouse. Moorhouse mysteriously disappeared while there, and
from conversations held between the Stafflebacks. Cora Staffleback is of the
opinion that the man was murdered.

Mike
Staffleback is now serving a term in the penitentiary. When he is free he will
be arrested for some of the murders in which he took part.

[“Crime
Their Trade. - From Petty Thievery To Horrible Murders. - The Infamous
Staffleback Family Ran the Gamut - Two of Them Are Under a Life Sentence, While
the Mother Is Given Twenty Years. - Moral Monsters.” The Argus (Holbrook, Az.),
Nov. 13, 1897, p. 2]

[“Mrs. Staffleback Died In Prison – The Mistress of the
Famous Murder Farm At Galena Succumbs To Pneumonia – In Agony At Her Disgrace –
Her Husband And Son, Both In Convict Garb, At Bedside When Death Came – She Was
Convicted of a Series of Murders Reminiscent of the Benders and Mrs. Gunness –
Abandoned Well Was Full of Corpses.” The Leavenworth Times (Ks.), Mar 11, 1909,
p. 1]

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Wikipedia – Lainz Angels of Death:Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Mayer, and Waltraud
Wagner made up one of the most unusual crime teams in 20th Century
Europe. The four Austrian women were nurse's aides at Lainz General Hospital in
Vienna who murdered scores of patients between 1983 and 1989. The group killed
their victims with overdoses of morphine or by forcing water into the lungs. By
2008, all four of the aides had been released from prison.

Wagner, 23, was
the first to kill a patient with an overdose of morphine in 1983. She
discovered in the process that she enjoyed playing God and holding the power of
life and death in her hands. She recruited Gruber, 19, and Leidolf, 21, and
eventually the "house mother" of the group, 43-year-old Stephanija
Meyer. Soon they had invented their own murder method: while one held the
victim's head and pinched their nose, another would pour water into the
victim's mouth until they drowned in their bed. Since elderly patients
frequently had fluid in their lungs, it was an unprovable crime. The group
killed patients who were feeble, but many were not terminally ill.

Investigators
criticized the hospital for meeting them with "a wall of silence" as
they attempted to look into a suspicious 1988 death. The aides were caught
after a doctor overheard them bragging about their latest murder at a local
tavern. In total, they confessed to 49 murders over six years, but may have
been responsible for as many as 200. In 1991, Wagner was convicted of 15
murders, 17 attempts, and two counts of assault. She was sentenced to life in
prison. Leidolf received a life sentence as well, on conviction of five murders,
while Mayer and Gruber received 20 years and 15 years respectively for
manslaughter and attempted murder charges.

In 2008, the
Justice Ministry in Austria announced that it would release Wagner and Leidolf
from prison due to good behavior. Mayer and Gruber had been released several
years earlier and had assumed new identities.

***

In custody, the
“death angels” confessed to forty-nine specific murders. Wagner allegedly
claiming thirty-nine on her own. “The ones who got on my nerves,” she
explained, “were dispatched directly to a free bed with the good Lord.” It was
not always simple, she allowed: “Of course the patients resisted, but we were
stronger. We could decide whether these old fogies lived or died. Their ticket
to God was long overdue in any case.” [Michael Newton, Bad Girls Do It!: An Encyclopedia of Female Murderers,
Loompanics Unlimited, 1993,pp. 8-9]

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Valentina de Andrade was never convicted, yet a number of
her followers were convicted of serial murder and mutilation of children,
crimes committed in accordance with the teachings of the leader of their cult.

***

FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Valentina de Andrade received
her gift of prophecy in 1981. Her neighbors found her talents of clairvoyance
and fortune telling remarkable, and she became a trusted seer in the backwater
Amazonian town of Altamira. She was also the leader of “Lineamiento Universal
Superior” (L.U.S. — Superior Universal Alignment), a group that believed that
the end of the world would come in 1986, with extraterrestrial space ships saving
only the sect’s followers.

Valentina’s preaching started in 1981 after having received
extraterrestrial messages through divine cosmic beings. Valentina embarked upon
her mission to spread the information she had received. Her teachings were to
be found in her book God, The Big Farce, claiming that God does not
exist, that Jesus is an extraterrestrial, and she assumes the mantle of a lofty
cosmic entity of “light, love and truth”, which had become incarnate on Earth
to perform a mission.

A central pillar to the beliefs of Superior Universal
Alignment is that children born after 1981 are a reincarnation of evil and must
be expunged. To become a member, one must abandon one’s children and only the
true adherents were to avoid the pending destruction of the earth by escaping
in a spacecraft.

As with many “apocalypse cults” of the past, the coming and
going of the date for the end of the earth left many followers unsettled.
Certain core members believed that maybe they had not lived the word to its
fullest, that they had proven themselves unworthy. In 1989 the children in and
around Altamira started going missing.

19 children disappeared and 5 corpses were found between
1989 and 1993. The children were boys between the ages of 8 and 13, tortured,
raped and stabbed to death. The bodies had been mutilated with genitals and
vital organs removed. The region was in a panic and the police initiated seven
separate investigations. Though several of the children were indigent, making a
living as “shoe shine boys” in the town center, the police couldn’t seem to
make a connection and the probes went nowhere.

The break came with the escape of 9 year old Wandiclei
Pinheiro. Indentifying his captors as influential members of society (the son
of a very wealthy local land baron, two physicians, a policeman as well as
Valentina herself) the truth sent shockwaves through southern Brazil. The story
that unfolded painted a picture of ritualistic human sacrifice and
cannibalization with the doctors removing the organs to sell on the black
market.

Four of the men were arrested immediately. Valentina escaped
custody by fleeing the country. She remained highly mobile for the next decade,
spending time in Argentina, Uruguay and at one point even Las Vegas.

The five were eventually collected and put on trial in 2003.
Though the other four were convicted and given life sentences, de Andrade once
again escaped due to an alibi which placed her out of the area when the murders
were committed.

Valentina de Andrade, now 82 [in 2009], continues to live
and preach among her flock in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of
3): Brasilia, Brazil (Reuters) – A Brazilian sect leader and five others
accused of kidnapping boys in a remote Amazon town, cutting off their genitals
and sacrificially killing them has gone on trial.

The trial, which comes 11 years after the police
investigation began, will be a test of Brazil’s ability to bring justice to
isolated areas where the legal system may be under the sway of powerful locals.

It could also help unearth similar killings elsewhere.

“This is a very important case, even if it comes 11 years
afterward,” the government’s Human Rights Secretary Nilmario Miranda told
Reuters on Wednesday from the court house in the northeastern town of Belem. “We
have to celebrate the fact that there is a trial.”

Valentina de Andrade, the suspected leader of a sect known
as Superior Universal Alignment, two doctors, two security guards and the son
of a businessman in the town of Altamira are charged with murder, attempted
murder and torture.

They are accused of attacking five boys, three of whom died
and two of whom were mutilated but escaped. The two surviving boys are expected
to testify at the trial.

According to the families of the victims, Andrade is said to
have been contacted by a medium who told her that boys born after 1981 were
possessed by the devil.

A group representing the families says there were many more
victims — 19 poor young boys in total aged between 8 and 13 who were horribly
tortured or killed between 1989 and 1993. Some had eyes gouged out, wrists slit
and sexual organs cut out.

Of the 19 victims, six died, five were never found and the
rest escaped, some after being drugged, bound and mutilated.

Legal experts helping the victims’ families have worked for
years to bring the suspects to trial. Police dropped many of the cases because
of lack of evidence or incompetence, according to Flavio Pachalski, a spokesman
for the families.

Saying justice could not be done
in remote Altamira, the defence pushed to move the trial to Para state capital
Belem, which was granted earlier this year. The trial could go on for weeks.

FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Rio De Janeiro, Brazil,
(Reuters) – A Brazilian court on Friday acquitted the alleged leader of a
Satanic sect of the ritual mutilation and killing of boys in a remote Amazon
town, officials said.

The decision, by a 6 to 1 jury vote at the end of a 17-days
trial in Belem, Para state, caused tumult in the packed courtroom with tears
and protests from the victims’ families.

“Valentina de Andrade is acquitted of the charges,” said
judge Ronaldo Valle. Andrade, 72, fainted after the judgment and received
medical treatment in court.

Andrade’s defense lawyers made no comment but the
prosecution said it would appeal against the court’s decision.

Andrade was accused of the murder of three boys and
castration of two others in Altamira, 200 kms (125 miles) from Beleme, between
1989 and 1993. She was said to have led the crimes of a sect known as Superior
Universal Alignment.

Defense lawyer Arnaldo Busato Filho presented the court
documents, including one from Parana state police in southern Brazil, showing
that Andrade wasn’t in Altamira when the crimes were committed.

Prosecution evidence in the case included a video of Andrade’s
husband receiving a gun as a gift. “It has bullets of gold to kill little
vampires,” Andrade was heard saying.

A group representing the victims says Andrade believes she
was contacted by a medium who told her boys born after 1981 were possessed by
the devil.

Four other defendants have already been sentenced in the
case, which started in August, for prison terms of 35 to 77 years. They
included two doctors who were involved in the removal of the genitals of
several of the boys.

The four are all appealing against their sentences.

The victims’ families say there were 19 victims in all —
boys aged between 8 and 13 who were kidnapped, tortured or killed in Altamira.
Not all the boys cases were brought to trial this time because of insufficient
evidence.

Monday, April 21, 2014

FULL TEXT: Buda Pest, December 11.
– The intense land hunger of simple peasants, who will do
anything to obtain a small plot on which to work from dawn to dusk, is stated to be the
chief motive of a remarkable series of husband poisonings, for which the trial of sixty women
in the villages of Tiszakurt and Nagyrev will begin this week. In most of the cases, after the husband mysteriously died,
the widow, having inherited the land, married younger men better able to help in the tilling.

~ Blind Husband “No Use” ~

Julia Sijj, it is alleged, murdered her father, husband,
two sons, two brothers, and an uncle in order to get the land. Another, Maria Szule, calmly
confessed that she poisoned her war-blinded husband “because he was no use to me. I married a younger man who can help me in
the fields.”

~ Poison in Coffins ~

In some instances the exhumation of the husbands’
coffins revealed jars containing arsenic concealed beneath the bodies. The accused women admitted that
they bought the poison from a midwife, Marie Fazekas. The police, intending to
arrest her, found that Fazekas had forestalled I them and hanged herself.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

These are the ones who got away – they are ignored survivors whose
experience does not fit into the orthodox political narrative of the
professional gender ideologues. According to “gender theory” women do
not murder. That is a male activity. Women, on the other hand, are not
responsible agents – they are “driven to kill.”

Yet the objective
study of female aggression does not confirm “gender theory.” It tells
an altogether story of women who kill because they like to kill.

This
collection includes cases of female serial killers in which one or more
victims survived a murder attempt. Some victims sustained severe
permanent injuries.

(This post is in progress. Details need to be
edited and expanded. In the meantime, the abbreviated notations will
remain posted, to be revised gradually. A number of cases have yet to be
collated and added.)

“Gesche
Gottfried, lost her life in 1831. She was the last person to be
publicly executed in Bremen. Germany's "most successful poisoner" was
found guilty of 15 murders and a further 15 attempted murders.” [INA8,
Bremen, website]

“She
[Billing] had made an attempt to poison her husband about the same
time, but he did not take a sufficient quantity, and recovered.” The
pair committed four murders, failed in another attempt and were panning
another homicide when attested. Both were convicted and executed.

“Boutaud and the servant Maria were always ill after taking anything
prepared by the prisoner, whilst similar things prepared by other
persons did them good, a medical man analysed what Mme. Boutaud and
Maria had thrown up after taking one of the prisoner’s concoctions, and a
considerable quantity of arsenic was then discovered.”

“After
the death of Mrs. Fuller, Phebe remained temporarily at Mr. Charles S.
Tuthill’s, where both the brothers perforce brought into the family.
Some ten or twelve days ago both the Tuthills and the wife of Mr.
Charles S., also a Mrs. Derrick – an Irish woman – with whose husband
Phebe had some difficulty about porterage, were taken sick, with
symptoms nearly akin to those of Mrs. Pulser, little Martha and Mrs.
Fuller. They have all been treated on the hypothesis of poison. The
brothers Tuthill are out about their business. Mr. Charles S. Tuthill is
doing well, and Mrs. Derrick is still dangerously ill.”

Two
or three children, a dog, two cats, six or eight birds, and some gold
fish, had all fallen victims to Agnes Norman unnatural propensity for
killing before she was discovered and arrested,” at the age of 15. One
little boy, aged eleven years, testified that one night he awoke by
feeling something hurting him, and upon looking up found this delectable
young woman, who lived as a servant in the same house, stooping over
him with one hand on his mouth, and the other tightly grasping his
throat. [edited from linked source]

“My dear husband and child died. I did not know what was the reason of
their death; but after mr child’s funeral only a week, I believe, I was
taken suddenly ill, and at one time was thought to be dying. I told the
doctor I was poisoned the day I was taken sick, and then I suspected she
had poisoned my husband and child. I told my brother and all of my
husband’s family also, when it occurred, nearly four years ago, but they
thought my mind was affected, and told me not to say so; that she might
prosecute me, and I could not prove it; but I have never spoken to her
since. I was brought from her house and have never had but one opinion,
that she poisoned them and killed them, and I barely escaped with my
life.”

“Recently,
at Germantown, Ohio, public attention was attracted to the simultaneous
poisoning by arsenic of three members of a family named Hanna, while
visiting the house of a kinswoman, one Sarah Earhardt. Fortunately the
amount administered to each of the intended victims proved insufficient
to cause death.”

Sallie’s
third husband realized he was being slowly poisoned. He fled home not
even bothering to take his tools. “He first came to Springfield, and
there remarked to an undertaker that he was in the business of trying to
cheat him [the undertaker] out of a job – he was fleeing from his wife,
and never intended to return.”

“She
next confessed to having been concerned in the three separate attempts to kill
her present husband, to secure his life insurance and about $500 he possessed,
in which she was to have been aided by her mother and brother Chester.”

“It was established with certainty that Maria Swanenburg poisoned at
least 102 people with arsenic of which 27 died (16 of those were her
relatives) between 1880 and 1883. The investigation included more than
ninety suspicious deaths. Forty-five of the survivors sustained chronic
health problems after ingesting the poison. Swanenburg's motive was the
money she would receive either through the victims' insurance or their
inheritance. She had secured most of the insurance policies herself. Her
first victim was her own mother in 1880; shortly after this, she killed
her father too. She was caught when trying to poison the Frankhuizen
family by contaminating their gortepag (grits) in December 1883. Her
trial began on April 23, 1885. Maria Swanenburg was found guilty of
murder of her last three victims and sentenced to live in a correctional
facility. She died there in 1915.” [Wikipedia]

Sarah Whiteling murdered family members (husband; son,
2; daughter; possibly 5 other of her own children) and poisoned three of her
neighbor’s children to create a distraction.

“She's a villain,” said Mrs. Martin, the next door neighbor
of Mrs. Whiteling. “Thank the Lord for saving our children from her, though one
of my little boys is sick in the country now since he ate candy which was given
to him by Mrs. Whiteling. My boy was taken sick at the same time as her Birdie
and when her child died Mrs. Whiteling told a neighbor she was surprised that
my child was still living. My husband one night caught her giving candy to two
of her little ones, who were in a coach on the sidewalk. He was suspicious then
and he threw the candy into the street I thought it very strange that she kept
feeding our children on candy. When her husband and children died she never
cried, and she rocked herself in a chair while the bodies were washed and
dressed by kind hearted neighbors. When her first child died so mysteriously I
wanted her to have a post-mortem made, but she refused.”

“The
first murder was committed on the evening of October 14, and the others
followed at intervals of two weeks. During the illness of each child
the mother showed a stolid indifference which her friends and physician
construed as grief. Each murder was carefully planned and summarily
executed. Though every child was attacked with the same symptoms and
died with the same cramps which accompany arsenic poisoning, the
suspicion of no one was aroused until after the death of the fourth
child, when the mother attempted her own life.The woman is twenty-three
years of age, and was the mother of five children, the oldest of which
was eight years of age. It was only for the sake of the fifth child, and
in order to save its life from the inhuman mother, that the husband
told his suspicions and suggested a post mortem examination of the
children.”

An
inadvertent poisoning by a female serial killer: “The physician tasted
the food prepared by Mrs. Butler and was taken violently ill, the
symptoms being burning at the stomach and vomiting. Dr. Smith carried
with him some of the food prepared, telling the woman she was suspected
of having poisoned the man. The food was sent to Ann Arbor, where a
chemical analysis showed the presence of strychnine and arsenic.”

In
the village of Bobbau, near the Russian frontier, a woman names
Przygodda, keeping an inn there, has been arrested on a charge of
murder. Sitting at dinner with her husband, she was observed to put a
white powder with his food. This excited the husband’s suspicions,
especially as it suddenly occurred to him that he was the woman’s fifth
husband, and that his four predecessors had all died suddenly.

“Two
young children named Habrias were found half dead at the bottom of a
well in the village of Chatain, and they were only rescued in the nick
of time. They said that they had been pushed in by a woman, and from the
description they gave Jeanne Bonnaud [18-years-old] was subsequently
arrested. She protested her innocence, and accused the children's
step-mother of the deed, but later, after making an ineffectual at tempt
to escape, she asked to be allowed to make a confession [to the murders
of five children].”

While
her parents were away, Mary made a determined effort to kill her only
surviving sister, Maggie, aged 8. Maggie has narrated her terrifying
experience in the following statement:— Mary put John out, locked the
front door, tied my hands together with bootlaces, and brought me into
the bedroom. She then told me to say my prayers. Mary next put gloves on
her hands, and told me to make no noise. She knocked me on my back, got
on top of me, put one hand on my mouth and another on my neck, and
tried to choke me. I could not roar. I next found myself in bed; one of
my teeth knocked out, and others loosened the door open and Mary gone.
The bootlaces were off my wrists; I was bleeding from my throat.”

“She
was brought up at the Assize Court at Bourges on Monday, January 25,
charged with having poisoned her father, her mother, her mother-in-law,
and a cousin, and with attempting to poison five other relatives.”

“On
April 5, 1905, Weber invited two of her sisters-in-law to dinner,
remaining home with 10-year-old nephew Maurice while the other women
went out shopping. They returned prematurely, to find Maurice gasping on
the bed, his throat mottled with bruises, Jeanne standing over him with
a crazed expression on her face.” [Michael Newton -Hunting Humans: An
Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers]

“[George
Morris, 11-years-old] told us that he had run away from home because
the woman Martha Rendall had attempted to poison him, and, further, that
she had poisoned his two sisters. Olive and Annie, and his brother
Arthur with spirits of salts some two years before.” [Note: age of 11 is
given in: “Death Of The Morris Children. - The Enquiry. - Evidence By
William And George Morris.” Geraldton Express (WA , Australia), Aug. 11,
1909, p. 3]

Dr.
Hazzard, who ran a sanitarium, was known as the “Starvation Doctor,”
for her radical fasting cure. Hazzard lured the wealthy to her resort
and extracted great sums from them. Fifteen victims were starve to death
under her “care.”

“The statement
[by Charles Boysen] has cleared up some of the puzzling points,” said the Coroner. ” Boysen told me that he thought that when he went
to attend to the burial of Richard T. Smith, at her home, Mrs. Vermilya tried
to poison him. He ate him and eggs and become violently ill. “He said the he ate 12 meals at Mrs.
Vermilya’s during his acquaintance and that on several of these occasions he
was taken ill afterward. He declared he has suspicions that Smith had been
poisoned, but he did not have enough evidence to warrant an intervention. [St.
Louis Post-Dispatch (Mo.), Nov. 12, 1911, Part 4, Page 1]

After seeking to make arrangements with a curate, Hagbard
Isberg, to bury a child named Elisabet. Suspicious about the death the curate
arranged to visit the couple. A faint whimper alerted him leading to his
discovery of two baby boys behind a locked door of a dustbin. There, in the
dark and cold, amongst urine soaked rags and with feces and other filth all
around were found two trembling babies. They were near death and were suffering
from severe rickets. Each appeared to be only 6 months old but were later
discovered to be about 18 months of age.

“Enriqueta
Marti was a kidnapper, child trafficker to sex perverts and a
blood-cannibal. There were two survivors: Teresita Guitard Congost and
another girl called Angelita; murder was not attempted, yet eventual
murder was of the girls probable.”

“Among
her murders was one in which she stole a boy sitting on a park bench in
the Santa Maria la Ribera marketplace. On another occasion, she child a
choked all the while laughing out loud. She once tried to boil a child
alive but was interrupted before she had accomplished her deed. Maria
Reyes had entered the home of a neighbor family and finding the parents
absent, was preparing to toss their child into a large cauldron of
boiling water. Police were summoned and arrested her and took the child,
but the parents entered the house and threw the boiling water onto the
murderess. She was hauled off badly scalded, while a crowd of people
threw rocks and spit at the woman.”

“The husband, Willis Buffom, a farmer, and the baby boy,
aged four, died first. After their deaths the wife and mother was arrested.
Then the little girl died. Two older boys also suffered from arsenic poisoning,
and one will be a cripple for life as a result of it.”

“All
of [Leopoldine Kaparek’s] victims were wealthy elderly women whose
confidence she won in some way. Her method was simple enough. After
gaining admittance to the apartments of the old ladies she strangled
them into insensibility and then ransacked the houses. Ten of her
victims recovered, but three were found dead and one died in a
hospital.”

“A
sensational poison trial at Geneva, after two days’ hearing, closed at
Zurich, when a handsome Swiss woman named Buchmann, dressed in the
latest fashion and wearing expensive jewels, was sentenced to
imprisonment for life for poisoning two husbands with arsenic during the
last three years, and also attempting to administer arsenic to a
prospective third husband. The latter’s suspicions were aroused, and he
informed the police, who exhumed the bodies of the two victims. A
medical expert stated that he found enough arsenic in the bodies to kill
a dozen men.”

John
Stermer, 22, Nellie’s son, who became ill in 1918 when his father died,
but recovered. He declared he thought his mother had poisoned him.

“The
husband is suffering from arsenical poisoning and his wife and
mother-in-law, Mrs. Mazorka, the latter a sister of Mrs. Nellier Stermer
Koulik, have been arrested. Micke says his mother-in-law recently took
out insurance on his life without his knowledge.” “Nick Micke,
son-in-law of Mrs. Kuizlowski, sister of Mrs. Koulik, and cousin of Mrs.
Klimek, whose; life was insured by Mrs. Kuizlowski. Found wandering
about streets . stricken with partial paralysis which, physicians say,
was caused by arsenic.”

“Sympathy
for the seemingly grief-stricken widow governed Hauptrief’s actions. He
gave her the solace of a home and the comforts of a cheerful fireside.
Hauptrief heard of his wife’s confession to killing her first husband
only a few days ago, as his condition had been too serious. ‘Annie’s
grief at Court’s burial was natural and unassumed, as far as I could
tell,’ Hauptrief said. ‘Clad in black, and with her young eyes red from
long weeping, my heart was filled with sympathy for her as she became
near-hysterical when they begun throwing dirt into the grave.’ At four
other funerals the woman was a living picture of a mother overcome with
life’s sorrows.”

“One
young woman, Mme. Mirman, whom Antoinette had attended, survived her
treatment. The accused gave poison to her for an entire year without
killing her. She suffered cruelly and will probably continue to do so
for the rest of her life. With death-like, face and trembling hands, the
unfortunate woman described the details of her treatment by the nurse.

John
W. Edwards: “Then one day her daughter, Mildred, who is six was playing
around the house and found a little box of white powder behind the
piano. My 16-year-old daughter, Mary, looked at the box and saw it was
labelled poison. Mildred grabbed the box and took it to her mother who
placed it under her apron. Later Mary told me about it. My wife said she
found the box on the street and meant to show it to me. Then she threw
it into the stove. There was a terrible smell when it burned. Some time
later Mary found a bottle containing white powder in my wife’s trunk. I
took a little out of the bottle back so nobody would notice the
difference. I took the sample to a doctor who informed me it was
poison.”

“The
trial of forty alleged poisoners of the little Hungarian hamlets of
Mahyrev [sic] and Tizakurt reached its highest point of dramatic
interest to day when Maria Kardos was accused of the murder of her own
son and husband and the attempted murder of the husband of her friend,
Juliana Foldvari, and Juliana Foldvari was charged with poisoning her
husband, lover and mother.”

“Since their arrest the women [Esther Carlson and Anna
Erickson] have ceased to be friends. Mrs. Erickson attributes her present
illness to coffee assertedly served to her by Mrs. Calson after they were first
questioned by authorities.” They were suspected of collaboration in murders,
including the slaying of Erickson’s husband.

“Chief of Police Jesse J. Crawford of Mifflin Township said
Mrs. Young confessed that she and Mary Chalfa had planned to kill Stella,
Stella’s husband, Joseph, and Mary’s husband, John, for their insurance money.”

“Climaxing
a sensational, year long, inquiry into the strange deaths of a son and a
daughter, a grand jury indicted Mrs. Amelia Rivers Webb Wardrop. It
listed three counts, two of first degree murder, and a third, charging
the administration of poison with intent to kill to a 21-year-old
nephew, Charles Hughes. Crippled from the hips down and hobbling into
Prosecutor Russell B. Lyons’ office on crutches, young Hughes a year ago
told the story that led to a painstaking investigation, a secret
night-time exhumation of the bodies of his cousins, and discovery by a
chemist that each contained poison enough to have caused death.”

“It
was stated that she had poisoned 16 of her relatives with arsenic, and
that six of them had died. The rest, including her husband, recovered
after serious illnesses (states the London ‘People’). Her object in
poisoning her husband was to be free to marry her lover, and she wanted
to kill the others to inherit their possessions.”

“Anna’s
husband came forward to inform police that his wife had stolen the
prescriptions from Dr. Vos, forged his signature on them, and then
ordered the poisons from local druggists, sending her twelve-year-old
son to fetch the prescriptions. Phillip Hahn said that Anna had twice
tried to insure his life for $25,000 but that he had refused. He himself
had been taken ill after that, with the same symptoms as the old men
Anna had cared for; somehow he survived. [Jay Robert Nash, Look for the
Woman: A Narrative Encyclopedia…, 1981, p. 179]

“When
the mass-murder trial of Moulay Hassen green-eyed ex-glamor girl and
night club owner, opened in Fez last month, M. Julin, prosecuting, said:
– ‘Of the fourteen girls known to have been inmates of this club in the
past year, three have disappeared, four are dead, and seven have been
tortured so badly that they will be invalids for life. Once a girl
entered this haunt she was never seen again outside.’”

“A
thin, big-eyed little girl celebrated her twelfth birthday Friday at
county general hospital with birthday cake, gifts and a party with 12
other little girl patients. Theresa Sullivan, one of the persons
poisoned by her stepmother, Mrs. Anna Louise Sullivan, smiled shyly at
nurses and visitors. For five months she has lain in the hospital,
recovering slowly. Visiting the party in a wheelchair was her father,
Michael Sullivan, thin from his six months struggle against arsenic.”

“Berlin
police have arrested Helen Moeller, 37, and charged her with the poison
murders of five persons and the poisoning of five others, the
Scandinavian telegraph bureau reported today. The victims included three
of her five husbands and two of her children. She reportedly told
police that the husbands mistreated her and that she feared the children
would inherit alcoholism from their fathers. She was accused of twice
attempting to murder her sister, the latter’s son and her present
husband.”

“Constable
O’Dea said that after he went to live at Mrs. Coleman’s residence in
St. Mary Street, Camperdown, she told him about a man named Bob. She
said Bob had done her a dirty trick at one time. He died after an
illness, and she suspected he took his life by poisoning. Some months
later, continued O’Dea, he asked Mrs. Coleman what she thought Bob died
from, and she said pneumonia. She said Bob had left a will in her
favour, but she had destroyed it. Witness said that Mrs. Coleman, when
she asked why he himself did not make a will, said she did not really
want it, but Mrs. O’Dea had not treated him so well and was not
deserving of it. He first noticed a change in his health on January 31
last, whilst he was residing at Mrs. Coleman’s house, he continued. In
the morning, he said, he had a cup of tea with Mrs. Coleman and Miss
Bewhey. After taking the tea he ran out and had violent vomiting
attacks. He left for Balmain Police Station, but was too ill for duty
and went back to bed. Next morning he had another cup of tea, and was
sick again soon afterwards. He resumed work a few days later, but after a
day became ill again. He was taken to Balmain Hospital, and remained
there about five weeks.”

“On
May 7, 1949, Irmgard Swinka was found guilty of multiple murders and
attempted murders and was sentenced to die by hanging. The day before,
however, capital punishment had been formally abolished.”

Clarice Spurlock was suspected of murdering her parents in
two separate poisonings. She was formally charged with arson for setting fire
to their garage. She was also suspected of slow-poisoning her husband.

Dorothy Elder also told the court that she had suffered two
illnesses with symptoms similar to those incurred by the dead relatives. When
asked if Mrs. Elder had been given her any Milk of Magnesia, she replied that
she replied that she had “two or three times,” and that “it made me worse.”

“Police
said . . . that a 200 pound pediatric nurse had admitted shaking to
death three infants because they got on her nerves or refused to take
their formulas. “It was all uncontrollable,” Virginia B. Jaspers, 33,
told Coroner James J. Corrigan. “I didn’t know why I did it. Children
sometimes get on my nerves.” Her lawyer said she would have her examined
by a psychiatrist. Miss Jaspers admitted breaking the leg of another
infant and inflicting a head injury on a fifth, the coroner said.

“Last
April, this ‘Soviet Borgia’ decided that A. Klavin, the woman who
looked after the committee’s accounts, knew too much, and she struck
again. But this time her attempt to poison A. Klavin failed. She was
arrested, tried and sentenced to death.”

May
11, 1968 – boy (a cousin), 3, “found behind some empty sheds near a
pub, bleeding from the head. He was found by Norma Bell and Mary Bell.
The boy was a cousin of Mary’s. He had ‘fallen’ off a ledge, landing
several feet below. Mary would later admit to having pushed him over the
edge.” [Shirly Lynn Scott, “Mary Bell: Portrait of a Killer as a Young
Girl”]
May 12, 1968 – 3 girls attacked and choked by Mary and Norma,
reported to police, who interviewed Mary but took no action. “Three
girls who were playing by the Nursery were attacked by Mary, with Norma
nearby. One of the girls said that Mary "put her hands around my neck
and squeezed hard. . . . The girl [Mary] took her hands off my neck and
she did the same to Susan." The police were soon called. Norma stated
that "Mary went to the other girl and said, 'What happens if you choke
someone, do they die?' Then Mary put both hands round the girl's throat
and squeezed. The girl started to go purple. . . . I then ran off and
left Mary. I'm not friends with her now.’” [Shirly Lynn Scott, “Mary
Bell: Portrait of a Killer as a Young Girl”]

Mrs.
Conyers was arrested March 14 after a five-month investigation
requiring the exhumation of three bodies from different Florence
cemeteries. The probe began when hospital officials in Charleston
notified local officials of an apparently unsuccessful poisoning
attempt. Bazen told the court Tuesday he became ill about two months
after he and his wife moved into Mrs. Conyer's home. However, he
conceded he didn't know who poisoned him.

Australian
Baby-sitter, Helen Patricia Moore, murdered five children aged from one
to seven years, and crippled another, Aaron, aged 2, between Mar. 1, 1979 and
Mar. 24, 1980. Moore was only 17 when she began her serial killing
career. She was convicted and after serving only 13 years of a “life
sentence” was released from prison.

“She
said Mrs. O’Bryan, who pleaded innocent to all charges, tried to kill
her sister-in-law on July 4, 1979, when the woman threatened to tell
authorities she suspected John O’Bryan, 37, had been poisoned.”

1982 – Genene Anne Jones – Kerrville, Texas, USA.

Pediatric nurse Genene Anne Jones is suspected of having
murdered up to 46 children. “In 1985, Jones was sentenced to 99 years in prison
for killing 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan with succinylcholine. Later that
year, she was sentenced to a concurrent term of 60 years in prison for nearly
killing Rolando Jones with heparin.” [Wikipedia]

"Pauline
Rogers, 46, of Jefferson County, is charged with the murder of Morris
Lee Adams, who died Feb. 15, 1977, and the attempted murder of Luther
Rogers on March 1."

1983 – Judias Buenoano – Orlando, Florida, USA.

“Authorities
became suspicious years after Goodyear's death when Buenoano's fiance, a
Pensacola car dealer named John Gentry, survived a car bomb explosion
in 1982. In the months before the attack, Buenoano began feeding Gentry
daily doses of what she said was vitamin C. After the pills made Gentry
sick, he had them analyzed and they proved to be a poison called
paraformaldehyde.” [Michael Griffin, “Chiles Gives 'Black Widow' A Date
With The Executioner,” Orlando Sentinel (Fl.), Dec. 10, 1997]

Buenoano
slowly poisoned her son, Michael Buenoano, who became crippled, having
to wear braces. In 1980, when he was 19, his mother pushed him off a
boat into a lake where he drowned.

“A circuit court found the 55-year-old former waitress
guilty of two counts of murder on Sept. 30. The charges stemmed from the
arsenic poisoning deaths of her husband, Glenn Orman Green, who died in 1978,
and her sister-in-law, Grace Blankenship, who died in 1978. She was also found
guilty of attempted murder in the poisoning of her fiance, Arthur Self.” Mr.
Self became paralyzed from the waist down. She was also suspected of attempting to murder her daughter in 1979.

It
was the death of an eight-month old boy Lise was babysitting that
prompted the police investigation that led to the discovery of the
woman’s homicidal career. Following the mysterious deaths of her own two
babies, Lise, apparently grief-stricken was able to engage trust and
compassion that would have helped her gain access to her later victims
and may have allayed suspicions. She repeatedly looked for jobs in
childcare, tried to smother two of the babies in her care for “revenge”
and killed a 9-month-old child she was babysitting for a neighbor. One
of the babies Turner tried to kill was the daughter of one of the
wife-swap partners, a woman with whom her husband wanted to run away.

According
to her feminist supporters, all of her marriages were also plagued with
sexual abuse and domestic violence. Beets' feminism-inspired claims of
domestic violence and sexual abuse occurred well after her conviction
and sentence of death. Beets had a criminal history prior to her arrest
for murder, including public lewdness, and shooting a former husband in
the side of the stomach. Married five times, Beets shot her second
husband, Billy York Lane, twice in the back of the head on January 18,
1970, and in 1978, tried to run over her third husband, Ronnie
Threlkold, with her car. Both men survived and testified at her trial.

1985 – Terri Rachals – Athens, Georgia, USA.

On
April 1, 2003 25-year-old Terri Rachals, a nurse at the intensive care
surgical unit at Phoebe Putney Hospital, in Albany, Georgia, who was
accused of injecting lethal doses of potassium chloride into six
patients, was released after serving her 17-year sentence. Prosecutors
charged Rachals with six counts of murder, but at her highly publicized
1986 trial she was found guilty but mentally ill of only one count of
aggravated assault. “Her first apparent victim had been 68-year-old
Milton Lucas, pronounced dead on October 19, 1985. Next up was Minnie
Houck, age 58, lost on November 7. Three days later, 36-year-old Joe
Irwin joined the list, and Roger Parker, also 36, died on November 15.
Andrew Daniels, age 73, lost his struggle for life on November 24, and
he was followed two days later by three-year-old Norris Morgan.
Survivors included patients Sam Bentley, George Whiting, Frances
Freeman, and Jack Stephens, all of whom had suffered one or more
unexplained cardiac arrests in ICU.” [Michael Newton - Hunting Humans:
An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers]

“Beverley
Gail Allitt (born 4 October 1968) is an English serial killer who was
convicted of murdering four children, attempting to murder three other
children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six children.
The crimes were committed over a period of 59 days between February and
April 1991 in the children’s ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital,
Lincolnshire, where Allitt was employed as a State Enrolled Nurse. She
administered large doses of insulin to at least two victims and a large
air bubble was found in the body of another, but police were unable to
establish how all the attacks were carried out. In May 1993, at
Nottingham Crown Court, she received 13 life sentences for the crimes.
Mr. Justice Latham, sentencing, told Allitt that she was “a serious
danger” to others and was unlikely ever to be considered safe enough to
be released. She is detained at Rampton Secure Hospital in
Nottinghamshire.” [Wikipedia]

“Sentenced
to death on Nov 23, 1994 for the murders of a Hispanic man aged 34 on
Jan 26, 1992 in San Carlos and a Hispanic woman aged 36 on Mar 11, 1192
in Palo Alto during burglaries. A third robbery victim, shot by
Carrington three times, survived and testified against her. Carrington
claimed that her lover forced her to commit the crimes so that she could
give him money.” [Murderpedia.com]

1992 – Laura Taylor & Heather Matthews + 2 men – Dayton, Ohio, USA.

A group of four people (Marvellous Keene, 19; Heather Matthews, 20;
Laura Taylor, 16; Demarcus Smith, 17) committed a series of violent
crimes on the weekend in December 1992. Nine people were attacked,
leaving five dead and four wounded.

“Nölle
was a nurse and between 1984 and 1992 killed patients in her care using
Truxal. Police think she killed a total of 17 and attempted 18 other
murders, but she was only convicted of seven. She has never confessed to
her crimes.” [Wikipedia]

1996 – Kristen Gilbert – Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.

“Kristen
Heather Gilbert (born Kristen Heather Strickland, November 13, 1967) is a
former nurse and an American serial killer who was convicted for three
first-degree murders, one second-degree murder and two attempted murders of
patients admitted for care at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in
Northampton, Massachusetts. She induced cardiac arrest in patients by
injecting their intravenous therapy bags with massive doses of epinephrine, an
untraceable heart stimulant. She would then respond to the coded emergency, often
resuscitating the patients herself.” [Wikipedia]

“Pediatric nurse Ann Green, who said she killed two of her
babies and tried to kill a third because she was depressed after childbirth,
was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder September 30, 1988 because
of insanity.” [“Nurse Acquitted.” Orlando Sentinel (Fl.), Oct.
1, 1988]

“According
to her sister Donna Hall, Sutorius's approach to men had long been
colored by monetary gain: ‘She said you find a wealthy man and, when
they die, you’d get their money.’”

“Investigation into the
background of Della Sutorius showed that the death of Sutorius, her
fifth husband, was not the first time Della Sutorius had been associated
with violence. Sutorius's third husband alleged that she had repeatedly
threatened to kill him during their marriage; after the couple
divorced, she was charged with threatening another man, this time a
boyfriend, with a gun. One husband had found knives hidden around the
house he shared with her and had been surprised when she told him she
"could kill you", while her fourth husband told investigators that she
was mentally abusive and he feared her to the point of hiding the
bullets to his gun to prevent her from being able to use them.”
[Wikipedia]

“In
2009, Stacey Castor (born July 24, 1967) was found guilty of
intentionally poisoning her then-husband David Castor with antifreeze in
2005 and attempting to murder her daughter, Ashley Wallace, with
crushed pills mixed in with vodka, orange juice, and Sprite in 2007. In
addition, she is suspected of having murdered her first husband, Michael
Wallace, in 2000; his grave lies next to David Castor’s.” [Wikipedia]

“A
third homeless man, Jimmy Covington, 48, testified at trial that he had
been approached by Rutterschmidt, who had taken him to Burger King and
promised him shelter. He testified that he had moved out after growing
suspicious when Golay and Rutterschmidt asked him to sign documents and
give his personal details to them. By then, Golay and Rutterschmidt had
already filled out one life insurance policy application for him.”
[Wikipedia]

“Mother
of two Irina Gaidamachuk dubbed 'Satan in a Skirt', posed as a social
worker to gain entry to the flats of her victims. After securing their
trust, the 41-year-old killed them by smashing their skulls with a
hammer or an axe. Then she robbed her victims, who were between 61- and
89-years-old, for the small amounts of cash in their purses. Only one
pensioner managed to escape, giving police the vital clue that the
granny killer was a woman. [Will Stewart, “Russia's worst woman serial
killer dubbed 'Satan in a Skirt' after murdering 17 pensioners in eight
year reign of terror,” DailyMail (London, England), Jun. 5, 2012]
Gaidamachuk was charged with 17 murders although estimates of the total
number of murders range from 61 to 86.

Alex
Strategos: “While I was in the hospital one time, I was very weak and
she brought two of my neighbours over to get a power of attorney signed,
which I did, and that’s how she got all of my money,” he said, adding
the amount was $18,000. He said the bank reimbursed him later. [Jane
Taber, “How a smitten man came face to face with the ‘Internet Black
Widow,’” The Globe and Mail (Canada), Oct. 2, 2012]

Fred Weeks:
“She just wanted to know if I was lonesome the same as she was,“ “Yeah,
she was very nice to talk to,” said Weeks. “She had a little religion in
there, she was talking like she was always religious. That was the
first lie.”
“Just exactly what she did,” he said, “she was trying to
kill me … there’s no doubt in my mind.” “I think she’s a wicked woman …
she’s not safe with any man, and she will do it again. That’s my
opinion.”

EXCERPT: “I felt a blow to my right shoulder. I turned
around and saw this lady, she just stared straight through me. I saw the
lady with that thing in her hands, I didn’t know what it was. I got
worried then, frightened. I said: ‘what are you doing?’ She said ‘I’m
hurting you, I’m going to f****** kill you’. I kicked her and made
contact. It had no impact on her, she just came straight towards me. “I
ran into the road. I put my hand to my jacket and saw all this blood.
She tried to come for me again, I kicked her again. She still didn’t
react.” [James Edgar, “Dog-walker relives terrifying knife attack at
hands of female serial killer Joanna Dennehy,” The Telegraph (London,
England), 17 Jan 2014]

John Rogers recalls taking his dog for a
walk on April 2 last year. He turned into a footpath at the town’s
Golden Post area and had taken only a few steps when he felt a hard
punch in his lower back. He said: “When I turned around she had got a
knife in her left hand. “When I turned around she started stabbing me in
my chest.” Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, said at this point Mr Rogers
asked “what the fuck was that for, what’s all this about”. Mr Wright
said: “Among the things she said was she made reference to the fact you
were bleeding and she had better do some more.” [Natalie Evans, Vicky
Smith, “Joanna Dennehy: Live updates as trial hears from one of men
serial killer tried to murder,” Mirror (London, England), Jan 17, 2014]